Composer quick search
Classical music composers archive
Welcome to Musicalics, the classical music composers archive. Here you can find information about more than 26 thousand composers and over 700 thousand compositions. There is also a large collection of geographical places connected to composers or classical music: the MusicAtlas.
Use the search form above to find what you are looking for.
This website is a combination of the Classical Composers Database (www.classical-composers.org; now disabled) and the extensive composers and compositions archive of Jean-Paul Giraudet, who compiled that in over 50 years. I am thankful to him that he allowed me to use that information here. I am also thankful to Ed Tervooren, who allowed me to publish his collection of MusicAtlas places.
Recently deceased composers
Emma Lou Diemer
Sunday, June 2, 2024
age: 96Richard M. Sherman
Saturday, May 25, 2024
age: 95Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
age: 71Víctor Urbán
Saturday, May 18, 2024
age: 90Jean Musy
Saturday, April 27, 2024
age: 76Richard Horowitz
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 75Lorenzo Palomo
Saturday, April 13, 2024
age: 86Peter Fortig
Friday, April 12, 2024
age: 90Phil Nimmons
Friday, April 5, 2024
age: 100Péter Eötvös
Sunday, March 24, 2024
age: 80Laurens van Rooyen
Thursday, March 21, 2024
age: 88Lita Grier
Sunday, March 17, 2024
age: 87
Latest news
On 21 March, Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora has received the Prize of the President of the...
The Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik (European Church Music Prize) for 2024 goes to...
The prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for 2024 was won by Korean composer Unsuk Chin....
The "Großen Österreichischen Staatspreis" (Big Austrian Culture Prize) for this year is awarded...
French composer Tristan Murail this year's recipient of the Wihuri Sibelius Prize. Murail was...
British composer Alex Paxton has won the Claussen-Simon-Kompositionspreis, worth €15000. The...
The German composer and pianist Hauschka (real name: Volker Bertelmann) has received the...
The 2023 Composer Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung was won by American composer Eric...
Random composer timeline fragment
1739-1767
Anna Bon (di Venezia) ♀1739-1755
Mlle Guerin ♀1739-1808
Jindřich Krištof Hataš ♂1739-1766
Johannes Ritschel1739-1826
Giuseppe Sigismondo1739-1769
Charles John Frederick Lampe1739-1793
Joseph Legros1739-1807
Anna Amalia de Saxe-Weimar1739-1812
Eligio Celestino1739-1812
Michel Delalande1739-1782
Joseph Vernon1739-1818
Gaudentius Dettelbach1739-1818
Agostino Accorimboni1739-1823
Joseph Pouteau1739-1789
Jakub Golabek1739-1825
Sigismond de Rumling1739-1809
Joost Verschuere Reynvaan1739-1791
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart1739-1813
Jan Křtitel [Johann Baptist] Vaňhal ♂1739-1796
Friedrich Wilhelm Rust ♂1739-1818
Franz Ignaz Kaa ♂1739-1811
Franz Xaver Flamm ♂1739-1799
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf ♂1739-1819
Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton ♂1740-1796
Paolo Orgitano ♂1740-1786
Michael Arne ♂1740-1831
Guillaume Lasceux1740-1776
Anton Neumann1740-1804
Thomas Carter1740-1802
Samuel Arnold1740-1817
Bazyli Bojdanowicz1740-1791
John Alcock1740-1795
Carl Michael Bellman1740-
Antonio Amicone1740-1810
Theodore Smith1740-1799
Bertie Abingdon1740-1820
Victor Pelissier1740-1810
Léopold Bastien Desormery1740-1811
John Antes1740-1817
Matej Sojka1740-
Gabriele Mario Piozzi1740-1797
Alexander Macglashan1740-1792
Nicolas Dezede1740-1799
Marcello Bernardini1740-1824
Karl Friedrich Baumgarten1740-1820
Pedro Aranaz y Vides1740-1785
Franz Schnitzer1740-1789
Joseph Antoine Lorenziti1740-1784
Nicolas Capron1740-1796
Luffmann Atterbury